What About the Enneagram is hosted on the site of Southern Evangelical Seminary.
Spirituality is a Package Deal It is crucial in understanding the New Age to know that it sees everything in a spiritual way, from a plastic container (“bad energy, low […]
Scazzero has a habit of imposing his own experiences and feelings on Scripture as well on all Christians. In this book, he makes broad generalizations, such as all Christians “wear masks,” Christians do not know how to deal with their emotions, and most Christians were not raised in healthy families. It was hard not to write, “speak for yourself!” in the margins of many pages in this book.
There are so many serious issues with this book, it is quite distressing that it is being recommended by many pastors and church leaders. I am not addressing all content of the book, only points related to my areas of my ministry or of obvious concern. Scazzero does offer some good insights in the book, but they are overshadowed by too many troubling statements.
Why “naked” in the title? That is simple. When one removes the mystical language and the false data about the Enneagram, the book is left naked. That is, once this material is removed, there would be nothing left but blank pages. As it is, this book is an example of the dangers that come with the Enneagram I have been warning about: Contemplative Spirituality, Panentheism, and possibly Perennial Wisdom (see info & links on authors toward the end). This book is all of these dangers on steroids.
Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret by Don & Joy Veinot and Marcia Montenegro was the first Christian book written to give the facts on the Enneagram. Please see this […]
Defenders of the Enneagram and other dubious or false ideas and teachings often state that God can redeem it. But this needs to be thought through carefully. What does God redeem according to Scripture?
One of the popular defenses of the Enneagram is to refer to Paul’s discourse on Mars Hill in which he quotes pagan poets in Acts 17 or to Paul’s quotes […]
This article is hosted at another site: https://www.watchman.org/Enneagram.pdf
One of the defenses used for the Enneagram is an appeal to the passage about meat sacrificed to idols (1 Corinthians 8; 10:24ff). However, consulting the Enneagram is not comparable […]
In attempts to sanitize the Enneagram into a Christian tool for personality assessment as well as a tool for spiritual growth, some have asserted a possible Christian origin or influence […]